Russian Underwear

Dr Margot Schindlerformer curator of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art

During a meeting of the European Textile Network ETN in 1999 in St. Petersburg I heard about a plan for a multilayered research and exhibition project about underwear. Julia Demidenko (St. Petersburg) and Ekaterina Degot (Moscow) as curators were the spiritus rectors of the idea. They invited several cultural historians and artists to take part in the project and share their individual artistic positions and own experiences.